Directed by:
Cecil B. DeMilleScreenplay:
Jesse Lasky Jr.Cinematography:
George BarnesComposer:
Victor YoungCast:
Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon, Olive Deering, Fay Holden, Russ Tamblyn, William Farnum, Lane Chandler (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
Victor Mature stars as Samson, a proud and strong slave who gallantly fights for the love of a beautiful Philistine (Angela Lansbury). In a spectacular sequence, the rippling Samson fights a lion with his bare hands in order to gain the woman's hand in marriage as her sister, Delilah (Heddy Lamar), jealously looks on. On the evening of their wedding feast a battle erupts between Samson and jealous Philistines, tragically killing the young bride. Shattered, Samson declares vengeance on the Philistines as Delilah vows to avenge her sister's death. Samson becomes a legendary fighter of superhuman strength, unbeatable by even the greatest Philistine warriors. Only one thing can stop him--the love of a beautiful woman. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Hedy Lamarr
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Strange Woman (1946)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Come Live with Me (1941)
Victor Mature
USA
Best movies:
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Safari (1956)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
George Sanders
Russian Empire
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
Love Is News (1937)
Rebecca (1940)
Angela Lansbury
UK
Best movies:
Sweeney Todd (1982) (TV movie)
Gaslight (1944)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Henry Wilcoxon
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Olive Deering
USA
Best movies:
Caged (1950)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Fay Holden
UK
Best movies:
Test Pilot (1938)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Canyon Passage (1946)
Russ Tamblyn
USA
Best movies:
Django Unchained (2012)
West Side Story (1961)
Drive (2011)
William Farnum
USA
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
The Crusades (1935)
Lane Chandler
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Laura (1944)
Moroni Olsen
USA
Best movies:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Francis McDonald
USA
Best movies:
The Viking (1928)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
John Miljan
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
If I Were King (1938)
Juarez (1939)
Kasey Rogers
USA
Best movies:
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Victor Varconi
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Frank Wilcox
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Russell Hicks
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Fritz Leiber
USA
Best movies:
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Mike Mazurki
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
George Reeves
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Samson and Delilah (1949)